Poetry. Photography. Art. Wendy Burk's TREE TALKS: SOUTHERN ARIZONA contains eight interviews with Southern Arizona trees. Documentation and methods join and interweave these entirely readable soundscapes. As the poet explains in the Introduction: "I came to this study as a way to consider ethics, environment, politics, communication, and failure to communicate. In carrying out the work, I asked myself how the underlying privileges and assumptions of my writing are complicit with the dominant culture's drive to dominate, through warfare, science, or art. The poems in TREE TALKS: SOUTHERN ARIZONA take those assumptions to what I hope is a useful extreme." "These are the most usefully extreme interviews I have read in a long time. The interviewee marks its presence in utter silence, with phoneme–free diacritics, while the sounds all around make their own visual noise. In a world cluttered with language, these poems clear a listening space, free of borders, where we can tune in to the urgent unspoken." —Eleni Sikelianos "In TREE TALKS: Southern Arizona, Wendy Burk 'interviews' eight different trees that reside in various forest and urban habitats. The poet asks questions about their experiences, feelings, memories, perceptions, fears, hopes, and dreams. This wonder transforms into magic through Burk's innovative transcriptions, in which a visual and aural eco–poetry interweaves natural, human, animal, and technological soundscapes. In our era of global deforestation, this book is a timely and profound reminder that we must talk to trees and listen, deeply, to their sentience." —Craig Santos Perez

Tree Talks: Southern Arizona

Literature & Fiction

Burk, Wendy

Poetry

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Poetry. "If a girl, a virus, a horned animal, milkweed, an exchange of cash for dirty looks, the near-rhyme of greed to death, the names of all brutes, and a shroud in which was wrapped the erect ascendant all met in an ovum and, lodged deep in the earth's core, fused into a supernova. If, from that long ago time until this very moment—perhaps even into the future—that supernova were listening in on us, her grave canal located such that she were overexposed to US American politicovangelizing, all at once began to speak: this is what she says." —Danielle Pafunda

Giving Godhead

Krieger, Dylan

Poetry. "Julia Drescher's OPEN EPIC is both examination and complex. In the context of this cosmology, Drescher's pre-origin meditations interrupt creation per se and its attendant orders, 'Descending errata' as another name for the great chain of being. In the very divide which opens language, every 'behalve' compels 'behave' in order to 'belong.' OPEN EPIC cannot wriggle free of the horns of this dilemma but it can, and does, wriggle, like a bell, shaking, shaken."--Tyrone Williams

Open Epic

Drescher, Julia

Poetry. "There is no quick contact line between the sacred and profane, nor are the delicate threads of those outlooks frayed in David Hadbawnik's poetic palimpsests, HOLY SONNETS TO ORPHEUS AND OTHER POEMS. The vocalic outreach to antiquity, a lyric channeling of the English Renaissance, and the exuberant undertones of Romance are performed in masquerades of contemporary utterances of the now. 'And what am I?' asks the Orphic figure. 'An ordinary nothing?' Personhood escapes to underworld self-erosion, and poetry returns in the levity of song's enduring, transforming play. It is a history of the making of soulful artifice."--Dale Smith

Holy Sonnets To Orpheus And Other Poems

Hadbawnik, David

Poetry. "Tim Earley's crazed, ceremonial ceramic concoction--EPIGRAMS BOTH LUDIC AND REGICIDAL--got me thinking on Keats's illustrious and illustrated urn, all glazed with double-dipping truth and beauty and whatnot. But the Jeroboamian vessel here is awash in a goddam gouache of red-figured language and is smashed to smithereens by the most loquacious of syntactical sledgehammers, a perfected ball-peening into these totemic, shamanistic, sublime and subliminal shards. These proems--let's call them contemporary divining ostracons--banish us to the sensuous land of necessary nonsense, strangers in the land of nod where we nod yes and yes to these epic epigrams, and yes, to these moving moments, generated by this earnest earner, Tim, right on time."--Michael Martone

Epigrams Both Ludic and Regicidal

Earley, Tim

Why It Is I Choose to Be Alien: Selected Poems of Laura Ulewicz

Ulewicz, Laura

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